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Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Unfortunately, when a murder happens, for too many people it is just something they see on the news and there is not really the horror or disgust that should happen when somebody’s life is lost in a particular location or address. It is something that people might raise their eyebrows at; they might see it on the news and move on. If you live in, work in or care about a community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill: Discussion (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank our guests for their presentations. This is a troubling area that we have to grapple with, and the Government and the Oireachtas have been trying to catch up following probably generations of under-emphasis of it. There was the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality and we have been speaking about changes at this committee. Clearly, there have been recent controversies...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 61. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to address the issue of prison overcrowding; if he is satisfied to have sufficient medium and long-term prison capacity to deal with the increase in the population and any other factors which would lead to an increase in demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18114/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 89. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has engaged with Governors of individual prisons on substituting short-term sentencing of four months or less to community service or another alternatives. [18113/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 80. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what progress he has made in progressing the offence of spiking as a stand-alone offence, consisting of administering a substance without consent for the purpose of facilitating a sexual offence, and punishable with a sentence of up to ten years imprisonment; and if he will support the campaign to recognise the need to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 299. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide figures on the average waiting time for an NCT in Dublin over the past three years. [17324/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 300. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider officially extending the NCT validity by six months for all cars on a waiting list for an NCT until the backlog can be cleared and tests are more readily available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17325/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 425. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Central Bank can direct a financial institution (details supplied) to increase interest rates on savings in line with increase rate increases on tracker mortgages. [18265/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 426. To ask the Minister for Finance what, if any action he is considering to require financial institutions to increase interest rates paid on savings in line with the increases in mortgage interest rate increases associated with tracker mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18266/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 427. To ask the Minister for Finance the minimum notice period required to increase an interest rate on a tracker mortgage; and if it is correct protocol that a mortgage lender (details supplied) would give nine working days' notice of an interest rate increase in the same month. [18267/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that victims of historical abuse in non-Catholic day and boarding schools are included in the scoping inquiry into sex abuse in such schools, and in view of the concerns raised, that the inquiry will be incomplete unless extended to such schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16408/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what action the parents of a child such as a person (details supplied) should take to ensure their child has access to a place in a reading school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16442/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 519. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the parents of a pupil (details supplied) can be evaluated and access a suitable supported place in a mainstream school as a transfer from his existing place in a special school. [16975/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the minor requests to be made for exams (details supplied), and the digital papers pilot in particular, which would greatly enhance accessibility for visually impaired students; and if she will contact the State Examinations Commission regarding these requests. [17512/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she acknowledges that in communities that have been identified as suffering deep and embodied trauma (details supplied), there is a need to go beyond general health and well-being practices and to also acknowledge that teachers working in such communities would benefit from expert support in integrating trauma informed and recovery...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is planning to support schools identified as having high levels of socially generated trauma in the school community, to integrate trauma-informed and recovery practices into their pedagogies and behaviour management approaches; and the teacher supports and teacher professional development opportunities she has identified to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 798. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the status of Irish Water's plans as regards treating wastewater with ultraviolet light or equivalent technology to prevent the discharge of contaminated water into Dublin Bay. [17336/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 799. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on what future infrastructure investment is needed to protect Dublin coastal and river water quality; and the measures he is taking to ensure those investments are made in a timely fashion to protect the rivers and seas from increases in wastewater generated by population growth and increases in housing numbers....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 800. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the poor results from water quality testing in Dublin Bay; the measures his Department has taken to remedy the situation; the work that is being undertaken by his Departments to protect the bathing water quality in Dublin Bay and across the Dublin coastline; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the last review of the financial thresholds for qualification for legal aid from the Legal Aid Board took place; his views on whether the current income threshold of €18,000 is outdated in view of inflation; and if he will sanction a review of the current system to examine the income and disposable asset...